Ireland team announced to face France at Millennium Stadium
\nThe Ireland coaching group have named the side to face France in their final Pool D game at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n
Paul O’Connell captain’s the side and is joined in the second row by Devin Toner. The backrow is made up of Jamie Heaslip at No.8, Sean O’Brien at open-side and Peter O’Mahony at blindside.
\nCian Healy starts and is joined in the front row by Mike Ross and Rory Best.<\/p>\n
Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton are paired at half-back with Robbie Henshaw and Keith Earls named in midfield. The back three sees Rob Kearney return at fullback with Tommy Bowe and Dave Kearney on the wings.<\/p>\n
Among the replacements are Richard Strauss, Jack McGrath, Nathan White, Iain Henderson, Chris Henry, Eoin Reddan, Ian Madigan and Luke Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
IRELAND team to play France \u2013 11.10.15<\/p>\n
15. Rob Kearney (UCD\/Leinster)
\n14. Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins\/Ulster)
\n13. Keith Earls (Young Munster\/Munster)
\n12. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers\/Connacht)
\n11. Dave Kearney (Lansdowne\/Leinster)
\n10. Johnny Sexton (St Mary’s\/Leinster)
\n9. Conor Murray (Garryowen\/Munster)<\/p>\n
8. Jamie Heaslip (Dublin University\/Leinster)
\n7. Sean O’Brien (UCD\/Leinster)
\n6. Peter O’Mahony (Cork Con\/Munster)
\n5. Paul O’Connell (Young Munster) captain
\n4. Devin Toner (Lansdowne\/Leinster)
\n3. Mike Ross (Clontarf\/Leinster)
\n2. Rory Best (Banbridge\/Ulster)
\n1. Cian Healy (Clontarf\/Leinster)<\/p>\n
Replacements
\n16. Richardt Strauss (Old Wesley\/Leinster)
\n17. Jack McGrath (St Mary’s\/Leinster)
\n18. Nathan White (Connacht)
\n19. Iain Henderson (Ballynahinch\/Ulster)
\n20. Chris Henry (Malone\/Ulster)
\n21. Eoin Reddan (Old Crescent\/Leinster)
\n22. Ian Madigan (Blackrock\/Leinster)
\n23. Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock\/Leinster)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ireland team announced to face France at Millennium Stadium The Ireland coaching group have named the side to face France in their final Pool D game at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff this coming Sunday. Paul O’Connell captain’s the side and is joined in the second row by Devin Toner. The backrow is made up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5546,4056,4050,14368,10002,4979],"class_list":["post-121049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-announced","tag-france","tag-ireland","tag-millennium","tag-stadium","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342187,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121049\/revisions\/342187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}